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This Day In History November 21


Voltaire's birthday Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey Men fly over Paris Tom Horn is born in Missouri Judah Benjamin becomes Confederate secretary of war Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties Edison's first great invention Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea Holland Tunnel appears on the cover of Time USC ends Notre Dame winning streak Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlem's Apollo Theater Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing U.S. force raids Son Tay prison camp Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots Rocky premieres Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R. Israeli spy arrested in United States Oliver North starts feeding documents into the shredding machine
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